Sentence examples for fairly contentious from inspiring English sources

It is a broad and fairly contentious rezoning plan that will shape Venice in the coming decades.

She'd held eight public meetings over the past two weeks, and one of them, in Lake Mills, was fairly contentious.

Democratic senate minority leader Joe Keaveny has told reporters he is unwilling to rule out use of the filibuster in upcoming legislative battles – some of which are expected to be fairly contentious.

It was a fairly contentious discussion as we tried to wade through all the b.s. and get to the meat of the story.

I've been on Facebook for a while now and have been involved in some fairly contentious discussions.

When Democrats reconvene following Tuesday's elections, there is going to be a fairly contentious debate over what went wrong -- both on policy and political grounds.

It was a somewhat contentious conference call.

"Coming right now, such a statement would go a long way to evincing both China's reasonableness and self-confidence in dealing fairly with such contentious issues as this one," Mr. Schell said in an e-mail.

For most of the past century, redistricting has been a fairly predictable though often contentious ritual.

Taking into account the views of the anti-immigration right is seen as vital by most European governments.That is why item six in the plan, which says that the EU will "consider options for an emergency relocation mechanism"—that is, a means of more fairly sharing refugees around Europe is likely to be most contentious.

On a far less contentious note, Apple also was granted two fairly substantial hardware patents.